I have a few quibbles with the inferential leaps people make about the Fibonacci number, phi and related ideas (for instance, fudging examples), but I cannot argue with the quality of the following video — it is a stunning visualization of the the relationship between the Fibonacci sequence, the Golden ratio, the Golden Angle, Delaunay Triangulation and Voronoi Tessellations:
John L. Taylor
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These are my links for March 12th through March 23rd: Stanford Large Network Data Sets – Like it says. Google Translate vs. the Humans – NYTimes.com – EVERYBODY has his own tale of terrible translation to tell — an incomprehensible restaurant menu in Croatia, a comically illiterate warning sign on a French beach. “Human-engineered†translation is just as inadequate in more important domains. In our courts and hospitals, in the military and security services, underpaid and overworked translators make muddles out of millions of vital interactions. Machine translation can certainly help in these cases. Its legendary bloopers are often no […]
These are my links for March 5th through March 12th: R Videos – Online instructional videos for R. Flickr: Creative Commons – Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license. Welcome to Apache Hadoop! – The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. Hadoop includes these subprojects: * Hadoop Common: The common utilities that support the other Hadoop subprojects. * Avro: A data serialization system that provides dynamic integration with scripting languages. * Chukwa: A data collection […]
Summary: Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy — and our own self-awareness.
These are my links for March 2nd through March 4th: Infochimps :: Find Any Dataset in the World – Infochimps is an open library and marketplace for the world’s data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything. TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux – Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB drives – PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, […]